Join us for an inspiring evening with Prof. Donna Strickland, Nobel Prize Laureate as she tours Australia for the Quantum Year National Tour in celebration of the International Year of Quantum.

We are delighted to bring you her Public Lecture followed by a Fireside Chat in Brisbane on 14 July.

Please find the details and link to register below.

Date: Monday 14 July 2025
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm
Location: The Edge, State Library Queensland / live stream
Bookings: Register now
Cost: Free

About Professor Strickland
Donna Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification with Professor Gérard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the time. They published their Nobel prize-winning research in 1985 when Professor Strickland was a PhD student at the University of Rochester.

Professor Strickland earned a B.Eng. from McMaster University and a PhD in optics from the University of Rochester. She was a research associate at the National Research Council Canada, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a member of technical staff at Princeton University. In 1997, she joined the University of Waterloo, where her ultrafast laser group develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations. She was named a 2021 Hagler Fellow of Texas A&M University and sits on the Growth Technology Advisory Board of Applied Materials.

Organising partners
Thank you to the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC), the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), the Queensland Quantum and Advanced Technologies Research Institute (QUATRI), QUT Centre for Materials Science, and the Australian Institute of Physics Queensland branch (AIP) for their support of this event.

National Tour dates
If you are located outside of Brisbane, Donna will also be presenting in Melbourne (7 July), Canberra (10 July) and Sydney (15 July). Visit the AIP website to find out more and register. Thank you to Defence Science and Technology (DSTG) for supporting Donna’s tour as National Partner.

We look forward to seeing you there!